Question

I have a problem where odd characters (from Word etc) are getting into a field in the database and then when I am showing that field it is showing spurious characters.

Is it possible with a RegEx to remove any non-ASCII characters? Obviously I want people to still be able to use any special characters like !@£$%^&*()_-+= etc just not non-ASCII characters.

If anyone could help that would be great!

Many Thanks!

Updated: This is in CLASSIC ASP.

Answer 1

In order to do this task you will need to build up various regular expressions and execute them with a sub routine call before inserting your record into the database.

Here is an excerpt from an explanation from 1stclassmedia.

str = str.replace( /\s*FONT-FAMILY:[^;"]*;?/gi, "" ) ;
str = str.replace(/<(\w[^>]*) class=([^ |>]*)([^>]*)/gi, "<$1$3") ;
str = str.replace( /<(\w[^>]*) style="([^\"]*)"([^>]*)/gi, "<$1$3" ) ;
str = str.replace( /\s*style="\s*"/gi, '' ) ; 
str = str.replace( /<SPAN\s*[^>]*>\s*&nbsp;\s*<\/SPAN>/gi, '&nbsp;' ) ; 
str = str.replace( /<SPAN\s*[^>]*><\/SPAN>/gi, '' ) ; 
str = str.replace(/<(\w[^>]*) lang=([^ |>]*)([^>]*)/gi, "<$1$3") ; 
str = str.replace( /<SPAN\s*>(.*?)<\/SPAN>/gi, '$1' ) ; 
str = str.replace( /<FONT\s*>(.*?)<\/FONT>/gi, '$1' ) ;
//some RegEx code for the picky browsers
var re = new RegExp("(<P)([^>]*>.*?)(<\/P>)","gi") ;
str = str.replace( re, "<div$2</div>" ) ;
var re2 = new RegExp("(<font|<FONT)([^*>]*>.*?)(<\/FONT>|<\/font>)","gi") ; 
str = str.replace( re2, "<div$2</div>") ;
str = str.replace( /size|SIZE = ([\d]{1})/g, '' ) ;